I need to install Jessie powerpc (32-bit) on a G4 powermac. (And before you ask, yes it needs to be Jessie – just for a couple of months. Then I will be able to install Adrian’s Sid from Ports.) But I’m running up against some roadblocks. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
When the installer gets to the part where I choose a package repository, I choose to enter the name manually as “archive.debian.org”. But that fails because it wants the dist to be “oldoldstable”, which doesn’t exist on the archive repo. If I could make it use “jessie” instead, things would work fine, but I don’t know how to tell the installer to do that. So my first question is: Does anybody know how to force the dist name to be something other than “oldoldstable”? OK… I gave up and chose not to specify a package repository. The install runs to completion with a very minimal configuration. It does that and reboots fine. Then I log in on the console and edit the sources.list file to look like this: > *deb **http://archive.debian.org/debian/** jessie main non-free contrib* Then, when I do “apt update” I get this: > *root@grey:~# apt update * > *Ign **http://archive.debian.org** jessie InRelease * > *Get:1 **http://archive.debian.org** jessie Release.gpg [2420 B] * > *Hit **http://archive.debian.org** jessie Release * > *Ign **http://archive.debian.org** jessie Release * > *Ign **http://archive.debian.org** jessie/main powerpc Packages/DiffIndex * > *Ign **http://archive.debian.org** jessie/non-free powerpc Packages/DiffIndex * > *Ign **http://archive.debian.org** jessie/contrib powerpc Packages/DiffIndex * > *Hit **http://archive.debian.org** jessie/contrib Translation-en * > *Hit **http://archive.debian.org** jessie/main Translation-en * > *Hit **http://archive.debian.org** jessie/non-free Translation-en * > *Hit **http://archive.debian.org** jessie/main powerpc Packages * > *Hit **http://archive.debian.org** jessie/non-free powerpc Packages * > *Hit **http://archive.debian.org** jessie/contrib powerpc Packages * > *Fetched 2420 B in 14s (165 B/s) * > *Reading package lists... Done * > *Building dependency tree * > *Reading state information... Done * > *All packages are up to date. * > *W: GPG error: **http://archive.debian.org** jessie Release: The following > signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1587841717 * If I ignore the warning and do “apt install exim4.doc-html” I get this: > *root@grey:~# apt install exim4.doc-html * > *Reading package lists... * > *Building dependency tree... * > *Reading state information... * > *The following NEW packages will be installed: * > * exim4-doc-html * > *0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. * > *Need to get 0 B/464 kB of archives. * > *After this operation, 3354 kB of additional disk space will be used. * > *WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! * > * exim4-doc-html * > *Install these packages without verification? [y/N] * If I take the default (“N”) the install fails. So I choose “Y”, and get: > *Install these packages without verification? [y/N] y * > *Selecting previously unselected package exim4-doc-html. * > *(Reading database ... 22481 files and directories currently installed.) * > *Preparing to unpack .../exim4-doc-html_4.84-1_all.deb ... * > *Unpacking exim4-doc-html (4.84-1) ... * > *Setting up exim4-doc-html (4.84-1) ... * > *root@grey:~# * So my second question is: How do I get it to proceed automatically in spite of the expired key? Thanks! Any suggestions will be greatly appreceated. Rick
